Reducing power consumption has become a major challenge in the design and operation of today's computer systems. This chapter describes different techniques addressing this c...
Runtime verification permits checking system properties that cannot be fully verified off-line. This is particularly true when the system includes complex third-party components, ...
The efficiency of a points-to analysis is critical for several compiler optimizations and transformations, and has attracted considerable research attention. Despite several advanc...
Most modern RDBMS depend on the query processing optimizer’s cost model to choose the best execution plan for a given query. Since the physical IO (PIO) is a costly operation to...
Users of multimedia applications today are equipped with a variety of different (mobile) devices that each come with different operating systems, memory and CPU capabilities, netw...